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From: mikeg@dali.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XGKS Metafile Output difficulties
Keywords: X GKS metafile help
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.134612@dali.gatech.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 18:46:12 GMT
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Reply-To: mikeg@dali.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay)
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Hello,

	I built xgks on my HPUX 7.0 under X11R4.
and it seems to work fine.  The demos that came
with it work mostly, but none produce a metafile.
One reads one, but there is no way for me to test
it.

	Does anyone have some code I could see
as an example for outputting GKS Metafiles using
xgks in either or both the C and Fortran bindings.

	I have a program written in fortran that
uses GKS to display some stuff used for radar
cross sections.  The code works, and xgks gives a
picture of the object, but I want to get an output
file so that I can make plots to a laser printer
or plotter (HPGL if that helps).  I don't know
if this is right or not, but I also have gplot,
which takes in CGM files and outputs X or PostScript,
or other formats like tektronix).  Is CGM the
format GKS uses?  If not, then how do I make
plots of GKS pictures with xgks + some tool?
What is the "some tool"?

	Thanks,
	Mike Gourlay
	mike@penguin.gatech.edu